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“While the earth is [peacefully] yielding bread,
underneath, it is being convulsed as if by fire;
its rocks have veins of sapphire,
and there are flecks of gold.
Birds of prey don’t know that path,
no falcon’s eye has seen it,

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The earth, from which food comes,(A)
    is transformed below as by fire;
lapis lazuli(B) comes from its rocks,
    and its dust contains nuggets of gold.(C)
No bird of prey knows that hidden path,
    no falcon’s eye has seen it.(D)

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